Matthew Martin is Curator of International Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Victoria and the co-curator of the exhibition Blue: Alchemy of a Colour. We’re used to thinking about the colour ...

New research into the anatomy of blue sharks (Prionace glauca) reveals a unique nanostructure in their skin that produces their iconic blue colouration, but intriguingly, also suggests a potential ...

Blue Beyond the Basics: Exploring the Many Moods of Blue Colour Shades: By Sanskruti Vaja Given that blue is the most popular hue in many parts of the world, it is not unexpected that there are so ...

When Isaac Newton wrote Opticks, published in 1704, he divided the colour spectrum into the now famous VIBGYOR, a set of seven colours (the decision was not, as such, scientific because Newton’s ...